'NoneType' object has no attribute 'string'

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html = """ <html><body>(html)(body)  
<h1>(h1)what is the scraping(/h1)</h1>
<p>(p)To analyze a web page(/p)</p> 
<p>(p)To extract the desired part(/p)</p>
(/body)(/html)</body></html> """

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser') 

title = soup.find(id="title")

body = soup.find(id="body")

print ("title=" + title.string)

print ("body=" + body.string)

You need to properly format the code and give us a question to answer. — Jonas Adler, Jul 10 '17 at 12:09
Both your `soup.find` calls are returning None. Next time, you need to include the full traceback of your error. Furthermore, explain what your code is supposed to do and what you expect. — idjaw, Jul 10 '17 at 12:14
Possible duplicate of [Python: Attribute Error - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'something'](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8949252/python-attribute-error-nonetype-object-has-no-attribute-something) — Alessandro Da Rugna, Jul 10 '17 at 13:05
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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '17 at 12:16

You are trying to find an element with id equals to title, something like <p id="title">foo bar</p>.

If you want to find tag by its type, do:

soup.find('body') # returns content of <body>

Or

soup.find('title')

The second example will not works in your case because there is no <title>foo bar</title> tag in your html, but you got the idea.

Harshith Thota · Answer 2 · 2017-07-10T12:19:56.960

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There is no title tag in your html. So, title=None. Hence you can't get any content out of it.

Try it with lxml instead of html.parser and try soup.body instead of searching for body tag.

edited Jul 10 '17 at 12:19

answered Jul 10 '17 at 12:12

Harshith Thota

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`soup.find(id="body")` is also returning `None`. – idjaw Jul 10 '17 at 12:13
Try soup.body instead of find(body) and also try with lxml instead of html.parser – Harshith Thota Jul 10 '17 at 12:15
I'm not the question asker. I'm stating that there is another mistake in the code so you can add it to your answer. Make your answer more complete. – idjaw Jul 10 '17 at 12:16

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'string'

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